Calappidae
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| Calappa japonica seen from above; the front of the animal is at the top of the picture | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Superfamily: | Calappoidea |
| Family: | Calappidae Milne-Edwards, 1837 |
Calappidae is a family of crabs containing 16 genera, of which 7 are only known as fossils:[1][2][3]
- Acanthocarpus Stimpson, 1871
- Calappa Weber, 1795
- † Calappella Rathbun, 1919
- † Calappilia A. Milne-Edwards, 1873
- Calappula Galil, 1997
- Cryptosoma Brullé, 1839
- Cycloes De Haan, 1837
- Cyclozodion Williams & Child, 1989
- Mursia A. G. Desmarest, 1823
- † Mursilata C.-H. Hu & Tao, 1996
- † Mursilia Rathbun, 1918
- † Mursiopsis Ristori, 1889
- Paracyclois Miers, 1886
- Platymera H. Milne Edwards, 1837
- † Stenodromia A. Milne-Edwards, 1873
- † Tutus Collins in Collins, Portell & Donovan, 2009
Fossils within this family can be found in sediment of Europe, United States, Mexico, Central America, Australia and Japan from Cretaceous to recent (age range: 66.043 to 0.0 Ma).[4]
References
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- ^ Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
- ^ Biolib
- ^ Peter Davie (2015). "Calappidae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ^ Fossilworks
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